Word: choruses
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...lynch mob, roaring their own credo: "Depend on hate! Our gold needs hate!" But the migrants are protected by Captain Sutter, and that night in his barn the woman gives birth to a boy. At dawn the sunlight forms a cross in the stable, and the golddiggers' chorus chants: "We have been fools, we have been fools," then concludes in a closing hymn, "Love turns...
...kept standing and shifting its feet. When at length there is no place for comedy and the story moves toward its stormy sunset and final clash of arms, what has been brokenly led up to is haltingly, almost frightenedly dispatched -is left to happen offstage, bulletined by a chorus, or never broached...
Only towards the end did the quality of the performance improve. The chorus, which had had little success in its earlier ventures, demonstrated in the terzett Suscepit Israel that it is still the master of choral singing. The remaining choruses were capably handled, but their effectiveness only served to emphasize the failings of the first part. Mr. Forbes and his group have given us much better music before...
...first half of the program was conducted by Michael Senturia '58, and consisted of two motets by Giovanni Gabrieli for chorus and brass choir. Mr. Senturia's deft direction elicited a clean, vigorous attack from both singers and brass in the second of the two, In Ecclesiis, but the first suffered from the same fuzzy intonation and sour accompaniment that despoiled Mr. Forbes' Magnificat...
Though Baker's staging was generally excellent, it was often maudlin in its excesses. Thunder and gales at every mention of the Devil and at every calumniation of religion seems unnecessary. But they were particularly poor when sung by chorus line behind the scenes. Once the chorus showed up on stage (now as corps de ballet) it proved more effective. The girls writhed and groaned about the feet of Lucifer, Belzebub, and Mephistopheles, rendering a vivid picture of Hell...